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How White South Africans Are Reshaping the Mississippi Delta | The New Yorker

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As Donald Trump offers U.S. asylum to Afrikaners, thousands are already working in the country on agricultural visas.

Save this story Save this story Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a three-mile loop at the Nelson-King Farms, in rural Mississippi. He began at the edge of a soybean field, where workers were piloting combines and cutting the crop; once the truck was loaded, Ramsden delivered the load to the farm’s silos on a highway outside of Chatham, Mississippi. His freckled face crinkled as he squinted into the sunlight. Wisps of blond hair curled out from his baseball cap. This story was produced in partnership with the Foo

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